Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , not only must these systems perform the required service in a timely and efficient manner , but also they must not be exposed to the threat of failure or interference . |
| 2 | Any commission paid to a foreign sub-agent should not be charged to the artist . |
| 3 | I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day . |
| 4 | The benefits would not be limited to the traveller . |
| 5 | Farm animals could not be led to the school , and their illnesses were often too rapid in course to permit of their transport . |
| 6 | A surplus can not be refunded to the company except by dissolution of the scheme in accordance with the rules of the scheme and relevant legislation . |
| 7 | NB A guest should not be invited to the service and not to the reception . |
| 8 | Particularly those dear , good people at the back who , although asked to attend the service , could not be invited to the reception . |
| 9 | The policy regarding transfusion of red cells was as previously described ; staff present at delivery could not be blinded to the treatment group but were seldom responsible for ordering transfusion . |
| 10 | The customer can not be bound to the finance company by his signature on a document which the finance company 's agent knows does not reflect the customer 's intention . |
| 11 | Requests that letters should not be sent to the home address or that the telephone should not be used are always respected . |
| 12 | Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods . |
| 13 | However , devices on the server that use redirection ( networks , CD ROMS etc. ) will not be re-directed to the client machine , which is a bit of a shame . |
| 14 | 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national |
| 15 | This outward aggression , however , if it can not be expressed to the object has to be turned inwards in depression , which is anger turned back upon the person . |
| 16 | The danger in being too rigid is that justice will not be done to the flexibility and complexity of human performance . |
| 17 | Whether or not there is a place for a trade union Ombudsman to carry out investigations and give general advice to unions , it is considered that this task should not be given to the Commissioner in view of the benefit to be derived from her maintaining an independent position . |
| 18 | But the King could not be asked to the dinner because protocol would demand that he be seated above Carter . |
| 19 | I feel that that is a good time at which to review the implications for the future , and I very much hope that the expertise that now exists will not be lost to the industry . |
| 20 | The former Kent and England spinner Derek Underwood , director of cricket at Club Surfaces , had this to say : ‘ Of course I enjoy seeing our pitches go in at the Etons and Tonbridges , but it is at grass-roots level within the state-schools sector that the wealth of untapped talent must not be lost to the game . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Thirty months have not elapsed since you first determined that the noble bequest of the late Mr. Whitbread should not be lost to the County of Bedford . |
| 22 | After a tour in February 1989 of Soviet psychiatric hospitals a US delegation reported that , although some improvements had been made , people were still hospitalized for political reasons and recommended that the Soviet Union should not be readmitted to the World Psychiatric Association ( WPA — for October 1989 Soviet readmission see p. 36980 ) . |
| 23 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 24 | At least with the man , a urethritis can be diagnosed , albeit imperfectly , by noticing pus cells in the urethra , but the same criteria can not be applied to the woman . |
| 25 | Most certainly it can not be applied to the peasant buildings of a century or so later . |
| 26 | But after a 7-month-long public inquiry which saw vigourous opposition from green groups to the plan , the Government has backed a recommendation by its Inspector that the bypass should not be built to the east of the city . |
| 27 | The Russian peasantry must not be condemned to the ordeal of the proletariat of Manchester or Birmingham . |
| 28 | Since sentencing is a matter of societal process and since we engage in an adversarial system , a right of appeal which is given to one side should not be denied to the other . |
| 29 | Although it is tempting to do so , non-conservation can not be assimilated to the phenomenalist tendency shown up in Martin Braine 's experiment . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the differences should not be emphasized to the exclusion of certain common features . |